Feb-2019
Liran and Lily both gave talks at the 1st Israeli Population Genetics Meeting, held at
MyHeritage offices in Israel. Lily talked about the genetics of the Levant Bronze and Iron Age
populations, and Liran talked about the anatomical reconstruction of the Denisovans.

Feb-2019
Liran gave a talk at the 5th Darwin Day Symposium, titled "Homo Loquens: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on the Evolution of Language", held at the University of Haifa, Israel.
Liran talked about the anatomical changes in the voice box of modern humans.

Feb-2019We welcome Manuel Ferrando-Bernal to the lab.
Manuel is a PhD student in Barcelona, in the group of Prof. Carles Lalueze-Fox, and came to lab to run a four-month project. Wishing you
a pleasant and productive stay.

Feb-2019

Research Interests:

Our lab deals with a host of topics in the general fields of molecular evolution and genetics.
Among the topics that are currently pursued are:

Human evolution. Recent advances in ancient DNA sequencing yielded genomes (either shotgun sequences
with varying degrees of coverage, or SNP arrays) of many ancient anatomically modern humans, as well as of
Neanderthals and Denisovans. This open unique opportunities to study the genetic aspects of the very recent
lag of our own evolution.

Paleo-epigenetics. We developed a technique to reconstruct full DNA methylation maps from high-coverage
ancient genomes, and use it to study evolutionary changes in gene regulation, ancient environments and phenotypic
adaptations.

Paleo-genetics. We study the genetic structure of ancient populations in Israel.

RNA biology. We are studying many aspects of RNA biology, including splicing, nonsense-mediated decay,
3'-end processing, and circular RNAs.